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Hello Karl, |
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On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 02:48, Karl Zander wrote: |
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> The Gentoo Security Guide seems to recommend AIDE (Advanced Intrusion |
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> Detection Environment) . And I would like to run that. But given that |
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> files in /bin, /sbin or /etc or other important places that AIDE may be |
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> monitoring can change when running emerge, how management intensive is it |
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> to run AIDE or any other intrusion detection? |
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A production server should not need that many updates, so the effort is |
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reasonable. |
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Check if sth. has changed, emerge, update aide database |
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> I think I read that AIDE was running on the Gentoo rsync server that was |
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> comprised so running it does seem like good practice. |
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IDS means intrusion DETECTION system, not PREVENTION! It cannot prevent |
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you system from being compromized (but a good configuration and regular |
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critical updates can...) - they only help you to understand what |
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happened, e.g. which files have been altered by a rootkit. Same for the |
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NIDS like snort and prelude... |
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HTH |
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Florian Huber |
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Florian Huber |
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BOFH Excuse #352: |
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The cables are not the same length. |
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